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Plymouth State 64, Tufts 63
At Plymouth, NH
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
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PLYMOUTH, N.H. -- Plymouth State University overcame a
four-point deficit in the final 20 seconds of the game Tuesday
evening and held on to defeat Tufts University, 64-63, in
non-conference men's basketball action at Foley Gymnasium.
Senior tri-captain Dan Cook (Dover, MA) drained
a pair of free throws for Tufts with 20 seconds remaining, giving
the Jumbos a 63-59 lead. The Panthers cut the margin to one when
senior Mike Chergey (Bow, NH) made a three-pointer with 12 seconds
on the clock.
After a time-out, senior Bill Stowell (Stratham, NH) stole the
inbounds pass for PSU and missed a lay-up, but classmate Eric
Hondal (Miami, FL) got the rebound and was fouled with five seconds
to play. Hondal made both ends of the one-and-one to give PSU the
64-63 lead. The Jumbos had one last chance, but a potential
game-winning shot was off the mark.
Junior Ryan Lambert (Derry, NH) led the Panthers, recording a
double-double with team-highs of 15 points and 10 rebounds. Hondal
contributed 14 points and six assists, Chergey finished with 13
points and eight boards, and senior Bryan Tracy (Manchester, NH)
chipped in with 10 points.
Senior Dave Beyel (Ocean City, NJ) led all
scorers with 20 points, making eight of 15 from the field and four
of six from three-point range. Classmate Jon Pierce
(Belmont, MA) added 14 points and freshman Scott Anderson (Sudbury, MA) contributed 11. Pierce and Anderson
shared team-high rebounding honors with eight apiece.
Plymouth State was on top the entire low-scoring first half,
leading by as much as nine points (21-12) with four minutes
remaining and taking a 24-20 lead into the intermission. PSU held
the visitors to only six points in the first 12 minutes before the
Jumbos rallied for 14 points in the last eight minutes.
The Panthers started to pull away in the second half, going up
by 10 points (43-33) with 13:30 remaining. But Tufts rattled off 12
unanswered points over the next two minutes, including
three-pointers by Anderson and Beyel, to take its first lead of the
night, 45-43, with 10:30 to play.
PSU answered with eight straight over the next two minutes,
including threes from Tracy and Lambert, to regain the advantage.
It was nip-and-tuck the rest of the way, with six more lead
changes, the final one being the decisive one with five seconds
remaining.
Tufts, 2-6, is finished for the semester and will return to the
court at home on January 5, 2010, against MIT at 8:00 pm. PSU, 5-2
overall, plays two more home games this week to wrap up the
semester, a non-conference affair Thursday against Lyndon State
College (7:30 pm) and a Little East Conference match-up Saturday
against Eastern Connecticut State University (3:00 pm).
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